Itamar Ben Ami is an assistant professor at the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at Utrecht University. He is interested both in the tense encounter between theology and politics in late modernity and in a critical genealogy of the foundations of modernity through the lens of religious traditions.

Itamar's work on Jewish Ultra-Orthodoxy and its relations to broader discourses around theology and secularism in the 20th century either has appeared or is forthcoming in Harvard Theological Review, Modern Intellectual History, The Journal of Religion, the Jewish Quarterly Review, and Jewish Social Studies. He is currently working on two book projects, one on the emergence of Ultra-Orthodox political theology and another on Jewish visibility and belonging in modernity.

Itamar holds a Ph.D. from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (2022). Before arriving at Utrecht, he was a research fellow and lecturer at Humboldt University's Faculty of Theology (2020-2023) and Ruth Meltzer post-doctoral fellow at the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies at the University of Pennsylvania (2022-2023). Itamar is a graduate of the Ultra-Orthodox Yeshiva educational system.